10 million dollars for dialogue with animals

This is reported on the foundation's website, Babel writes. It is noted that this award – is a multi-year project aimed at using advances in artificial intelligence, including large language models, to achieve interspecies communication.

The scientific committee that will evaluate applicants for the award aims to achieve communication with non-human organisms according to the principle of the “Turing test” – when an animal communicates independently, without realizing that its interlocutor is a person. Artificial intelligence can play an important role in creating interfaces to interpret such communication.

Project organizers promise annual grants of $100,000 to support research. The team that succeeds in this challenge could receive $10 million in investment or $500,000 in cash.

You can apply for this year's prize until July 31st. The jury will select the 10 best applications, whose authors will present their work at an online symposium. After this event, the jury will determine the winner.

Natasha Kumar